Our Private World Apart

By L A Michaels

What happened during the Summer of 1986? Cliff Knight ripped away from his new girlfriend, Vivica Weston! Sent to go live with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in Amsterdam. Vivica is stuck in Grosse Pointe, Michigan for the Summer, or is she? When Vivica takes on the catwalk during a local fashion show, international modeling agent, Myles Madwell of

• Language: English
• Publisher: LML Books
• Release date: Sep 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087898865

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Copyright © 2020 by L A Michaels

First edition published by LML Books September 2020

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Cover Design by: Pro Graphics 360

Front and back cover images by: loviiiluv

Edited and proofed by Sandra Watts

For Josh Patterson, thank you for being there and being my friend.

Pastiche:

An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.

Soap Opera:

An ongoing drama serial on television or radio, featuring the lives of many characters and their emotional relationships.

From the flames of a fire to the blue skies above, we are all just somewhere Between Heaven and Hell…

CONTENTS

What I did on Summer Vacation

The Knight Cousins

No/Yes

Two for Lunch

The other Knight Family

Myles Madwell

Copenhagen

There is ice cream in New York City

The Deal

The Girl with the Blonde Hair

NYC

Back in Grosse Pointe

Clif Ton and Cliff

Deal

Listen to your Intuition

Life of the Party

Time to Go

The Adventures of Nadia and Brandon

And The Bomb Went Off

First Day of the Rest of her Life

About the Author

WHAT I DID ON SUMMER VACATION

Vivica Weston spent the first few weeks of summer vacation channel surfing the TV. Cable was a joke. One hundred channels and yet nothing to watch at all. How people got hooked on that scam, she would never understand. After watching her favorite show, As the World Turns, she would become bored out of her mind, unless a rerun of The Facts of Life came on. Her best friend in the world, Brianna Belle, then insisted on introducing her to General Hospital, but she wasn’t about to get hooked on that show. It always bored her to tears… Luke and Laura had nothing on Lily and Holden. She honestly wasn’t even sure that Luke and Laura were still on the show.

It didn’t help that her new boyfriend, Cliff Knight, was sent off to Amsterdam for the summer by his good for nothing father, Rodrick. Rodrick was pure evil. He didn’t like that the two of them were together, but Vivica didn’t give a damn. Neither did Cliff. They would talk for about five minutes every day at an obscene hour. The long-distance calls were a nightmare. The only reason that her mother Gale had agreed to the calls was that Cliff’s grandmother Delia promised to pay for the phone calls. It was Delia that would only pay for the five-minute call. Her mother Gale, didn’t seem to mind the time of day in which these conversations took place. Partly because she was still getting over her husband’s death, David Brash Junior, or DJ as he was known around town.

After a few weeks, Vivica had definitely had enough. This was when she received a call from a local department store about an upcoming fashion show. Vivica was a part-time local model in Detroit. She had to beg her mother, Gale, to let her do it at first, but thanks to her late stepfather DJ Brash, she caved. The other girls in the fashion show were a mixed bag of meh and decent. They just didn’t understand that modeling was not the same as being in a beauty pageant. You did not smile the entire time, and you definitely did not talk while on the catwalk.

This was going to be a whatever show, she thought to herself as she put her makeup on at her vanity. Vivica had so much hairspray on that she would have to soak her hair in a bucket for the night to get it out. As she did her eyes, Brianna Belle walked over to her, Oh, this is just so exciting! I can’t believe that you get to do another show! Brianna was Vivica’s best friend; that was for sure. It was only lately though that Vivica and her had been on good terms. She thought for the longest time that Brianna Belle was after Cliff for herself. It turned out that the reason Brianna always wanted to slip into hanging out with them had nothing to do with Cliff, and everything to do with Vivica… Vivica had to admit she was shocked when Brianna Belle came out as a lesbian to her, but it didn’t bother her in the slightest. She had no sexual attraction to Brianna Belle herself, but she was flattered, and it helped mend their friendship into something a bit stronger over the last month or